Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Glen: (aside) In addition to my faith hat, I also have a designer/manufacturer of programmable logic controller hat. To design an artificial life form (android / zombie ...) capable of successfully passing among humans in a religious (faith) setting you would probably need tons of memory (or

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
wrote: Robots do lip service quite handily. We value your call. Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:22 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

2012-09-20 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick I'm glad you brought up a) Laws b) Protestant ideas in the context of faith. AND That you are still trying to define your beliefs.. I claim with some degree of certainty that at least 90% of the worlds religions don't set down precisely and completely their Laws in the form of Rules/

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

2012-09-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Buddhism may not have a God but Buddhism belief has gods who are superior beings existing at various planes of existence. Their gods, called Devas, apparently exist at the highest plane of existence well above humans, and animals, and various beings condemned in past lives to inhabit hell (the

Re: [FRIAM] Faith

2012-09-25 Thread Sarbajit Roy
/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/ and the courses I teach *_* On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote: Buddhism may not have a God but Buddhism belief has gods who

Re: [FRIAM] faith

2012-09-25 Thread Sarbajit Roy
It would take the inverse form Faith is absolute acceptance whereas Belief is limited/conditional acceptance. So Russ may have belief in X without having faith in it. eg. Russ believes that his old and broken down motorcycle can take him from A to B, but he doesn't have faith that it will On

Re: [FRIAM] faith

2012-09-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
proposition? Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:37 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] faith It would take the inverse form

Re: [FRIAM] WAS faith; IS NOW: Societal degeneracy?

2012-09-27 Thread Sarbajit Roy
If the united states government were willing to spend the same sort of control to suppress gangs in your neighbor hood as it is to suppress gfngs in Afganistan, I imagine they could clean things up pretty quick. {Alien View] The US Govt is exporting its neighborhood gangs to Afghanistan, and

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

2012-09-29 Thread Sarbajit Roy
While agreeing that this version of the Golden Rule is somewhat more evolved, I don't exactly recall this variant as especially being from the Gita. On 9/28/12, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fm wrote: Expected that Sarbaijit might have mentioned this - the Gita has a variant of the golden

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

2012-09-30 Thread Sarbajit Roy
) versus the inferior Niti (Penal) Law (slay all offenders on sight). Gita 1:30, 2:31 etc. So DUTY would probably be compressible. I am an ant, so I'm duty bound to pick up every speck of sugar I can find and convey it back to the mother ship. On 9/29/12, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

2012-10-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Attachment / de-attachment / non-attachment etc are distractions from the 2 paths A) The path of self knowledge for people on the threshhold of enlightenment. B) The path of selfless service for the others. I can't really explain these things because of language and societal differences. Most

Re: [FRIAM] DEBATE about Religion and Atheism - modeling

2012-10-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
-compressible I haven't a clue. dave west On Mon, Oct 1, 2012, at 03:24 PM, glen wrote: Sarbajit Roy wrote at 09/30/2012 10:28 AM: The Gita, however, (as I'm fairly sure the Old Testament does too) expresses that once a man's side is determined, he is obliged by DUTY to do what is right

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

2012-10-02 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Your post is contaminated/deluded by the repeated use of I. As long as you are attached to your I-ness you cannot propound anything valid beyond the delusion of your self. http://www.ourpathtogod.com/bhagavadgita/chapter2.html One who abandons all desires, and becomes free from longing and the

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

2012-10-02 Thread Sarbajit Roy
.. etc., right? You will never attain peace as long as you see Russ as a YOU. Right? N -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:13 AM To: russ.abb...@gmail.com; The Friday

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

2012-10-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
[mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 11:12 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] attachment Oh dear me, Perhaps the simple online version of the Gita I chose was too advanced. I thought

Re: [FRIAM] attachment

2012-10-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:18 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] attachment Dear Nick There's no illusion of separateness. You ARE separate from me. The Gita only asks you to give up Iness to progress further

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us wrote: I read the books listed in the reverse of the order in which I listed them. Perhaps because of that, I think the order of relevance is also increasing. In particular, the authors of IEWTIL (rhymes with futile) explain why they believe a third

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Sorry for the blank e-mail. Historically it seems that dynastic succession gives the longest stable political systems to enable nation building. On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us wrote: For those interested in voting systems, towards the end of the book the authors suggest alternate

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
, Sarbajit Roy wrote: Sorry for the blank e-mail. Historically it seems that dynastic succession gives the longest stable political systems to enable nation building. On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us wrote: For those interested in voting systems, towards the end of the book the authors

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Only 1 in 200 men are descended from Genghis Khan. http://www.cell.com/AJHG/retrieve/pii/S0002929707605874 I am not. Your premise about splitting the vote is fallacious. 1) Nothing you, Joe or this mailing list does is going to affect the outcome on Nov 6. 2) A vote by its very definition

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
1) I am a pure (acharya) Brahmin. This means that we marry endogamously to ensure that chromosomes like Genghis Khan's do not enter our genetic code,. 2) Previously we followed our own variation of Genghis Khan genetic propagation by the practice of Kulinism. This allows a dominant gene

Re: [FRIAM] Expanding the Debate

2012-10-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
are your courts dealing with it. http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/cases/USA.htm On 10/6/12, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fm wrote: Small nit --- On Sat, Oct 6, 2012, at 12:29 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: Apparently the LDS / Mormons use the same method. You are correct only in the case

Re: [FRIAM] Hacking Phones In China

2012-10-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
My advice for your friends would be to get a local Chinese person to buy a USD$ 40 Chinese phone/tablet for them which would give them googlemaps. On 10/13/12, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Dear FRIAM, I thought, at the very minimum, this might amuse some of you, and

Re: [FRIAM] How to avoid shootings

2012-12-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet Invented in India. Outlawed 22-2 with Britain and the USofA in favour at the Hague Convention. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Plus

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Just to update fellow FRIAMers. The most common standard display device in the world today is the 16x2 character LCD display. The vast majority of installations use it in 4 bit mode. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: As a courtesy to our old-fashioned

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
A sundial only works consistently (sort of) between the tropics. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: I prefer the sundial, myself. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Steve Being a devotee of ancient computing devices myself, I was responding to Doug's TRS-80 ascii comment here's what a 16x2 LCD module looks like http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hN2n9HggfCw/T2TOHEMIAsI/AAc/LrJ6uy2cNrs/s1600/lcd162b-yhy.jpg These critters are so ubiquitous that you fail to

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

2013-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
We call it chip-on-glass, and it actually improves the reliability of the device. When thiese devices first came out they used a Hitachi processor/IC. Then some Koreans made a clone (shifted around some control words), then the Chinese made their clone ICs (more control word shifts and

Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor

2013-02-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick What flavour/version of Windows are you running and how much RAM do you have installed?. Try Ctr-Alt-Del and see if a Task Manager pops up. If so, click on Processes. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote: Nick it sounds like you are on the right track. I

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/144204/unlocking-new-mobile-phones-becomes-illegal-in-the-us-tomorrow On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: That is why an unlocked phone can be to your advantage. On Feb 16, 2013 10:06 PM, Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Petition Response: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research

2013-02-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
digressing, I (non citizen) just registered and voted today on another We the People, Petition. So its kind of neat to see that US policies get voted on by Global Citizens. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Do you have prove US Citizenship to

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

2013-03-15 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Steve I must mention that these scamsters target victims aged 50+ presumably with little knowledge of computers and under-informed of human psychology. Probably picked the wrong bunch at FRIAM :-). Doug (from what I observe) takes care of himself very well. I'll ask my friends to devise a

Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?

2013-03-15 Thread Sarbajit Roy
at 7:15 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve I must mention that these scamsters target victims aged 50+ presumably with little knowledge of computers and under-informed of human psychology. Probably picked the wrong bunch at FRIAM :-). Doug (from what I observe) takes care

Re: [FRIAM] perplexed by netflix

2013-04-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Bruce If you liked 3 Idiots, you may enjoy its even better prequel - Munna Bhai MBBS. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374887/ Sarbajit On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote: Despite all this, we experience a very low fraction of unreadable DVDs from

Re: [FRIAM] Systems, State, Recursion, Iteration.

2013-04-13 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Russ I've read your paper on *how the Fed can fix the economy: *You've programed the states of the economy and frozen the Fed's response in turns of those states like traffic lights. It reminds me of classical control theory - pure and immediate Proportional control to control a single

Re: [FRIAM] digital ethics

2013-04-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Seconded. If a resource is available it ought to be availed of. Its upto the copyright holder to protect his work (and royalty stream). I'm trying to put together a Pirate Party in India for this. Sarbajit On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Stephen Guerin stephen.gue...@redfish.comwrote:

Re: [FRIAM] gmail forums exploded

2013-08-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Thanks for the link I switched to an IMAP client (T-Bird) 3 days ago when their latest nonsense started. Gillian Densmore wrote: The new gmail in box, compose, and forcing hang outs on you has caused lots of threads like productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/yl_XPO5Hw6Y[726-750-false]

Re: [FRIAM] TLS encryption [was gmail forums exploded]

2013-08-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
try https: // ecomail DOT at On 8/17/13, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: On 8/16/13 9:13 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: I switched to an IMAP client (T-Bird) 3 days ago when their latest nonsense started. Speaking of e-mail providers, I've noticed that a some of my providers

Re: [FRIAM] Wix

2013-11-08 Thread Sarbajit Roy
I had a similar situation. I was recently advising some whistleblowing academic researchers in India's leading management institute who were pulling the chain on massive plagiarism and sexual harassment etc. and needed a online platform We considered Wix, rejected it as too bloated, non-SEO

Re: [FRIAM] disk cloning?

2013-12-28 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try Norton Ghost. Its free. On 12/29/13, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings fellow technomancers, After trying ease to do backup and shadow copy clone for window both seem to take ages and n quite a complete backup I wonder if anyone hasexprience with backing up a

Re: [FRIAM] FPI 210

2014-02-22 Thread Sarbajit Roy
with a shortage of tillable land and farm labour prepared to work. Sarbajit Roy On 2/22/14, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote: A Mathematical Formula Predicted Today's Worldwide Protests Over a Year Ago http://www.policymic.com/articles/82855/a-mathematical-formula-predicted-today-s-worldwide

Re: [FRIAM] More on Spam

2014-03-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick At the cost of privacy. If you can use either POP or IMAP to access your emails on earthlink, try accessing them through a Gmail account and allow Gmail's spam filters to do their magic Just make sure though to setup Gmail to leave all messages on earthlink. In fact if you let Gmail loose

Re: [FRIAM] SEO

2014-03-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Owen Google is cracking down on blackhat SEO. Several things are wrong about this website, starting from its spammy name. Nothing that can't be fixed easily - and CHEAPLY. PS: here are the website's key phrases 3 Word PhrasesCount Density more about our 2 1.81%

Re: [FRIAM] bootable backup of windows?

2014-10-04 Thread Sarbajit Roy
RUFUS http://rufus.akeo.ie/ On 10/4/14, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! Anyone have recommendations of software that can make a bootable windows backup? I'm looking for one that can do so to a USB Drive- Like is there something like OmniDisk or Diskutility from Mac

Re: [FRIAM] second computer issue

2014-10-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
/questions/998289 Try and use the FF ESR versions instead of the latest version they keep upgrading you to. Switch to Seamonkey which doesn't seem to have these memory issues. Sarbajit Roy On 10/4/14, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Russ, thanks for the quick response! It's

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Rohinni's Lightpaper Is Incredibly Thin, And Printable

2014-11-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Invisibility cloak ? Sarbajit On 11/23/14, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Pretty impressive: ​​ http://www.fastcolabs.com/3038890/rohinnis-lightpaper-is-incredibly-thin-and-printable ​From the article: How would you use light if it was paper-thin and could be applied to any

Re: [FRIAM] Google's Graveyard

2015-02-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Google's products are highly intrusive. Whenever I use them I feel as though I'm a lab rat in somebody's experiment. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ On 2/5/15, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: It's only fair to say the google ecology is converging to some degree and is pretty

Re: [FRIAM] Optimizing cell phone plans...

2015-04-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
My own data plan in India gives me 2GB+unlimited Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp. It costs me about US$2 per month. The provider also gives free access to many websites using Facebook's internet.org, but there is a huge uproar here because people say it violates something called net neutrality Sarbajit

Re: [FRIAM] if you use google

2015-10-28 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try this http://www.google.com/custom Sarbajit On 10/29/15, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Some of you that use google might find this handy > > http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/27/google-http-search-yes-it-is-still-possible/ > > > recently google.com started to redirect to

Re: [FRIAM] A physics question

2015-11-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nice question. Probably needs more information though to answer for near some boundary conditions. http://www.igsoc.org:8080/journal/34/116/igs_journal_vol34_issue116_pg64-70.pdf "ABSTRACT : A theory of icicle growth is presented. ... A time-dependent computer model based on the theory shows

Re: [FRIAM] Hosting Service

2015-09-29 Thread Sarbajit Roy
https://www.openshift.com/ On 9/29/15, glen ep ropella wrote: > These guys have a cheap option: > >http://directspace.net/services/virtual/ovzfeatures.php > > I have the $4/month one and it works well enough. > > On 09/28/2015 11:57 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: >> The

Re: [FRIAM] A physics question

2015-11-18 Thread Sarbajit Roy
gt; > Will change how I see them. > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish

Re: [FRIAM] Calculus for 9 year olds

2016-03-31 Thread Sarbajit Roy
on the child. Calculus especially is a subject which the child has to be slowly eased into and correlated to physical and biological phenomena. Some non-US boards do this very well,eg. the IGCSE and the IB. Checkout www.desertacademy.org in Santa Fe. Sarbajit Roy http://www.mathspro.in/ On 3/30/16, John

Re: [FRIAM] Windows users: Uninstall Apple's QuickTime now - The Washington Post

2016-04-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
The wise men at Encyclopedia Dramatica have it just right excerpts: QuickTime is a popular Virus often found on Mac OS X, but is commonly mistaken as a media player brought to you by the lovely people from Apple. Like plenty of other Apple software, it is offered to you free of charge, but will

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-07-31 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Try Networx https://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/manual/ On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > > > You will recall that when I am in Massachusetts, I get all of my internet > over a Verizon hotspot. It a bit like eating lunch with a

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
t of data used up for each website > contacted. Given the rarity of the problem, the software probably doesn’t > exist. > > > > Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. I will explore it more closely > tomorrow. > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Tho

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

2016-11-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ It seems that depressed economies imply we are going to have a rash of fascism everywhere. Here's to World War III. Cheers. On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Well put. This is not a game. > > > On Tuesday,

Re: [FRIAM] Quick cross posting re:website maker sugestions

2017-05-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
There are hierarchies for multi-user blogs. For eg. would you want multiple users to be able to edit the same article (like a wiki) ? Or do you want a single user to write "his" article, which an administrator can edit / delete. HTMLY (http://www.htmly.com) is light enough for the 2nd type of

Re: [FRIAM] Discussion Boards

2018-03-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
AVOID proboards.com They take down fora without any warning or reason under their infamous clause 25(a) and they never ever restore a board, so all your work just vanishes. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Thanks, everybody. I will look into

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-23 Thread Sarbajit Roy
d also be translated pretty > reasonably to "what could a scientist investigate based on that claim". > Nick is fond of asking questions like "If the wine *is *blood, can we use > it for a transfusion?" Where as I, a bit more petulant, prefer questions > like "Given that o

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
; > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Friday, Febr

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
mbs from the sky on those who disagree with US policies or the US' aforesaid mass delusion called Christianity. Sarbajit Roy Brahma University On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:31 PM wrote: > Geez, Dave, > > There's an awful lot here. Do you mean to take the hardest case? A > person? And p

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
yria 2014-2015 (1%) https://areyouforsyria.weebly.com/ > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irreligion > > [2] > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550617707015?journalCode=sppa > > *From: *Friam on behalf of Sarbajit Roy < >

Re: [FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

2020-02-21 Thread Sarbajit Roy
> Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Friday, February 21, 2020 9:3

Re: [FRIAM] evaporative cooling

2020-05-19 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi You need a psychometric chart for this. Here's one off the internet https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Evaporative-Cooler-Process-on-Psychometric-Chart-where-e-Efficiency-in-percent-T-DBE_fig5_271288974 On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:10 AM Gary Schiltz wrote: > No scientific results here, but

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

2020-05-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Its a variation on Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill the time) ... "Economies expand to keep their populations sedated" On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:17 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Nick, > > I suspect that if people only did what they 'need to do' the economy would > collapse. > > On Sat, May

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Having printed books in India on behalf of European and Australian academics, my experience is if the print run is 500+ then the cost of offset printing (on fairly decent paper) and perfect binding a softcover book with approx. 250 -300 pages is about $3.50 per copy shipped to the USA. 500 copies

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Edward The PDF of the 7th edition of your book being widely circulated was very likely not generated from its Kindle version, but from the Postscript version used to print your book. It was generated using Adobe Distiller 7+ for a Macintosh. Must have been cloned from one of those unwatermarked

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
; > Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory > (ARTS Lab) > Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.ed

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
gt; > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Sunday, July 5, 2020 2:33 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfi

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
cents per page of expensive books accessible to our vast library of PDFs and DJVUs, I would be happy to have them as my student ;-) Sarbajit Roy New Delhi, India On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:24 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > I'll put this out their as I suspect a unpopular opinion. It's be been

Re: [FRIAM] Illegal copies of your book

2020-07-05 Thread Sarbajit Roy
ndered in the translation. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-06 Thread Sarbajit Roy
n > the hands of the author. My two cents worth. > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:11 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> I got your book from here >> >> https://www.pdfdrive.com/interactive-computer-graphics-a-top-down-approach-with-webgl-edward-angel-and-dave-d38281420.html >>

Re: [FRIAM] NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data

2021-01-27 Thread Sarbajit Roy
GIGO. COVID-19 statistics (data) is suspect and not strictly comparable across countries, starting with China's numbers. On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 1:20 AM Tom Johnson wrote: > NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data > by Sabrina I. Pacifici >

Re: [FRIAM] vax v unvax

2021-08-20 Thread Sarbajit Roy
This article may help https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8.pdf On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 8:36 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > What boggles my mind is that the aggregated results are so > consistently wrong. The aggregated efficacy of 67.5% is less than all the > stratified efficacies.

Re: [FRIAM] "All [persons] are created equal"

2021-08-27 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Nick, I am not a metaphysicist to debate such things with you. Can just state cold facts. All persons would be created equally .. in a perfect world. However, when the world they are born into is imbalanced, in actuality their weightage depends on the circumstances of their birth and the larger

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-25 Thread Sarbajit Roy
quot; before we used them. The people who are contracting and dying of COVID in India are the ones who are fated to do so because of their own foolishness and ignorance, and also because India's government wanted them to die. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57005563 Sarbajit Roy New Del

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-25 Thread Sarbajit Roy
..@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 25, 2021 10:41 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] On the: R

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
patients were being turned away in droves before my eyes. Sarbajit On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 1:56 PM Sarbajit Roy wrote: > Pieter > > The official statistics for India are quite (grossly) inaccurate. We can > *conservatively* multiply the number of infections by x10 and the number

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
mectin and low new covid infections in India? > > Pieter > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 04:42, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I would like to give you an "Asian" (perhaps culturally distasteful) >> perspective

Re: [FRIAM] On the: RLY!? side

2021-08-26 Thread Sarbajit Roy
, 2021 at 2:43 PM Pieter Steenekamp < piet...@randcontrols.co.za> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Sarbajit, so what you're saying is the situation is > much worse in India than what the official numbers indicate. > > Pieter > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 at 10:48, Sarbajit Roy wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] The unvaccinated

2021-10-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Yes, this excellent article was behind a paywall. This paywall is easily bypassed by either a) turning off Javascript in the browser (easily done by the ublock privacy addon), or b) clearing the cookies for nytimes.com. Sarbajit On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 12:03 AM Barry MacKichan <

Re: [FRIAM] why, me, o lord?!

2021-07-18 Thread Sarbajit Roy
HWMONITOR to monitor the CPU https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.44.exe On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 9:24 PM wrote: > Thanks everybody. Right now all is quiet. Last night, it was making > noises like a saw-whet owl that has slammed his talons in a car door. I > will pay close

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Yes, Prof.John Mearsheimer is very insightful and balanced with a deep sense of history. His Great Delusion lecture is also entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZVIaXFN2lU In addition to the view from Europe, you may also be interested in the view from India

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
He's updated himself here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 9:18 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > From Mearsheimer’s argument, Ukrainian nationalism can drain Russian > resources just like it did in Afghanistan. > > On Mar 7, 2022, at 7:32 AM, Sarbaji

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Both authors of the article are affiliated to the notoriously imperialistic Chatham House think tank. On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:19 PM glen wrote: > Well, for the wartime profiteers amongst us: > > >

Re: [FRIAM] what's the view from Europe?

2022-03-07 Thread Sarbajit Roy
cipled liberal democracy is fake and insincere. That seems to be > Putin’s position. But assuming this is all true, and all there is > asserting power, then there is nothing left to talk about. Send out the > aircraft carriers. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbaj

Re: [FRIAM] and don’t miss this

2022-03-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
FYI, their low cost UAVs and drones use Raspberrry Pi processors on their own PCBs. On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 1:59 AM Marcus Daniels wrote: > Advanced tracking technology! Lol, in Russia that means it has an 80386? > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of glen > Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
ere his > opponents are poisoned, shot or imprisoned. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU3wJc9WmRI > > -J. > > > Original message > From: Sarbajit Roy > Date: 3/9/22 19:31 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Grou

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
What is going to happen in Ukraine is that Russia is going to teach Ukraine a lesson for flirting with the EU, NATO and western liberalism and signing that NATO document in November 2021. Putin is going to annex the Eastern and Southern parts of Ukraine by setting them up as autonomous

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
nctions hold up, Putin is in for a > world of hurt. > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Sarbajit Roy > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 9, 2022 9:02 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Enamine &g

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
at 11:11 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Sarbajit, what is the relationship of India and Russia? Is it true that > Russia is India's biggest arms supplier? > https://time.com/6154734/india-ukraine/ > > -J. > > > Original message -------- > From: Sarbajit Roy >

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Marcus if I can clarify some of this. The "West Ukrainian" people feel BETRAYED by Russia's attack on their country, As fraternal Slavs they did not expect it considering their past history with Russia. Putin is making it clear that he is not targeting the Ukrainian people, per se, but the

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
If anything, these linked articles highlight the stranglehold US armament suppliers like Lockheed and Raytheon have over the US Government's international policies that they could get unilaterally abrogated the ABM treaty which held for 30 years. On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:28 AM Marcus Daniels

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-12 Thread Sarbajit Roy
potential of versatile, even transportable, surface-to-surface missiles on > the Russian border. Putin was running out of time for his tour of > Ukraine. > > I think I shall buy some LM stock. It seems like a growth area. > > On Mar 12, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: > >  >

Re: [FRIAM] Enamine

2022-03-09 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Is it the one Tolstoy describes in > "Special military operation and peace" ? > > -J. > > > Original message > From: Sarbajit Roy > Date: 3/9/22 19:31 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Subject: R

Re: [FRIAM] war footing

2022-03-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
She almost definitely doesn't represent "Russia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpB721W1l34=1122s On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:56 AM glen wrote: > This video brings home, to me, the inherent conflict with "do what it > takes to ...": > > I'm Russian I want the rest of the world to hear me out >

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

2022-03-22 Thread Sarbajit Roy
For anyone who believes that Russians are brainwashed by Putin propaganda / unaware of the reality of their national situation post Ukraine, or unable to publish inside Russia https://www.rt.com/russia/552333-russia-ukraine-conflict-benefits/ NB: This Rusian author's assessment is very similar

Re: [FRIAM] Is the American political system broken?

2023-09-03 Thread Sarbajit Roy
In this context, I would like to share the thoughts of an important world leader (not very popular with successive US governments) on 1 party, 2 party and multi-party systems. I found his (poorly translated) analysis very perceptive even if the alternatives he proposed instead were a bit prosaic.

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

2022-07-02 Thread Sarbajit Roy
The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing. For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and outright lies. These pills are

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